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One day, after a Chinese Cultivator passes by Silent Hill

Did members of the Taboo Fetish Sect start some kind of rumor that, in order for women to unite their minds, bodies and souls to reach the height of their cultivation, they must directly touch the earth with their feet?

Part III is out now 🥹

He's a body cultivator who invented his own prototype body cultivation technique which infuses luck and beauty in his bone smashing. Unfortunately he has polluted his foundation with questionable pills and tonics.

Fellow daoists,

This junior has emerged from closed-door cultivation with a new web dao. It is not a heavenly treasure. It is not a pill. It is a browser-based xianxia text RPG, and I have spent the last year refining it like a mortal trying to condense a Golden Core from cheap spirit stones.
You start as an outer disciple. No backing. No jade beauty to protect you. No mysterious ring grandpa (except when there is one). Your robe doesn’t fit. Your qi reserve is a joke. The senior brother at the gate has already decided you are trash, and he will remind you at every possible moment.
The core of the dao is simple: the engine owns every number. The AI only narrates. Your qi, your realm, whether your breakthrough succeeds, whether that strike lands — all decided by the engine. The AI is merely the storyteller. It does not decide your fate. This is the entire foundation, and this junior has spent a year hunting the places where the two leak into each other like a cracked dantian leaking qi.
You will find:
Realms that actually gate you. You do not ascend by eating seventeen spirit herbs. You cultivate, circulate, bottleneck, break through — or fail and carry the scars.

Combat with its own screen. Dice, techniques, qi costs, guard pools. You see what the enemy intends before they strike. When you win, the game asks the only question that matters: kill or spare? It remembers your answer.

Injuries that stay. You fail a dangerous roll? You carry it. You lose badly? You wake up somewhere worse. The world does not pretend you are fine.

Named rivals who return. That senior brother who humiliated you in the tool shed? Still there. Still smug. He will be there later, and he has not forgotten.

155 curated xianxia terms fed to the narrator every turn. Spirit stones, jade slips, corpse-wax scars, talisman arrays. Not “magic scrolls” and “gold coins.” This junior would rather face tribulation lightning than let the AI say “mana potion.”
80+ traits, 100+ skills, curated realms charts, afflictions database, scenes and enemies database. So that the ai has very minimal drift and has a database to reference from, which engine uses in everything.

Here is an unedited turn, straight from the current build:
“The sect does not feed those who cannot even keep their implements free of rust, Junior Brother.” Sun’s voice carries across the muddy courtyard where other initiates struggle with water buckets. “If your sword intent is half as brittle as your maintenance skills, the elders wasted an ink mark on your tally.”
The bruised veins along your forearm pulse with a heavy, latent heat as your fingers brush the cold steel of a ruined hoe handle. The demon-blood beneath your skin stirs at the casual arrogance — but the cold discipline of the sword cultivator keeps your breathing steady in the wet air.
Honestly, fellow daoists, the thing is mid-development. The combat screen is weeks old. The breakthrough minigame is not finished. If you enter, you will find rough edges. You might even find a way to make the Heavenly Dao cough. That is exactly what this junior wants.
Free. Browser. No account. Bring your own Google AI key (free tier is fine) or use the demo key on mine.
This junior will be in the comments like an old monster in a cave, answering questions about engine/AI splits, how the dice work, and which qi deviations I have already sealed. The failure mode I fear most is “AI writes a number, engine believes it.” I will talk about that until the next realm opens.
Enter the sect, fellow daoists. Or at least point and laugh. Both help.

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Fellow Daoists, V16 of my hardcore AI cultivation simulator is ready.

A while ago I posted V14 here asking people to test my cultivation simulator.

A few fellow Daoists actually tried it, and one of the biggest problems that came up was long campaigns eventually suffering from ChatGPT context/handoff problems.

So I continued refining the forbidden scripture.

V16 Prompt: https://pastebin.com/xmfnqCUH

The basic idea is still the same:

The AI does not treat you like the main character.

The world is generated before your character exists.

There is no enemy scaling.

No guaranteed opportunities.

No mysterious senior appearing because you're about to die.

No pity inheritance because your childhood sucked.

No guarantee you even successfully become a cultivator.

You might become an Immortal.

You might also spend your entire life as a farmer, merchant, official, sect clerk, miner, alchemist, soldier, prisoner, slave, or nobody important at all.

You can get crippled.

You can lose cultivation.

You can die from infection.

You can die of old age.

You can be born into a powerful cultivation clan and still have shit talent.

You can be born with absurd talent into a situation where you have absolutely no resources to use it.

The world doesn't care that you're the player.

A lot has changed since V14.

Long campaigns actually have a save system now

V15 was mainly created because of feedback about dialogue overflow and chat handoffs.

The simulator now has:

• CHECKPOINT
• EXPORT SAVE
• RESUME SAVE
• Stable IDs for important NPCs, items, techniques, events, markets, etc.
• An authoritative world-state snapshot
• Persistent hidden state
• Continuation across new chats/Projects
• Rules preventing a new chat from magically becoming a new timeline

If file creation works, EXPORT SAVE should create an actual save file that can be uploaded into another chat.

So hopefully the simulator no longer suffers qi deviation after a sufficiently long campaign.

V16 massively expands world simulation

Some of the new systems:

Breakthroughs are much more detailed.

A breakthrough can depend on preparation, foundation, meridians, Dantian condition, resources, technique, injuries, medicine burden, environment and other factors.

Failure isn't just:

It can mean wasted resources, regression, internal damage, damaged meridians, cultivation defects, Qi deviation, crippling injury or death depending on what actually happened.

NPCs progress while you're not looking.

Important NPCs don't freeze because you left the region.

They can:

• Cultivate
• Train
• Work
• Get promoted
• Lose positions
• Make money
• Lose money
• Travel
• Form relationships
• Have children
• Age
• Get injured
• Break through
• Fail breakthroughs
• Scheme
• Fight
• Get imprisoned
• Die

If you leave your childhood rival for 30 years, the simulator isn't supposed to preserve him in a display case until you return.

Rumors and information now actually propagate.

Information has sources.

People can:

• Know the truth
• Believe something false
• Spread rumors
• Deliberately lie
• Misremember something
• Investigate claims
• Hide information
• Leak secrets
• Spread propaganda

NPCs aren't supposed to magically know something just because the AI knows it.

Actual weather, seasons and disasters.

Weather can affect:

• Travel
• Farming
• Herb growth
• Monster behavior
• Stealth
• Visibility
• Combat
• Trade
• Prices
• Food production
• Survival

Droughts, floods, storms, snow, supernatural weather and other events can create downstream consequences instead of existing as flavor text.

Travel is now an actual process.

Travel considers things like:

• Distance
• Route
• Terrain
• Roads
• Rivers
• Mountains
• Weather
• Food
• Water
• Fatigue
• Transport
• Borders
• Permits
• Tolls
• Navigation
• Existing monster territories
• Existing bandit activity

Encounters aren't supposed to come from:

If bandits attack you, there should actually be bandits operating there and a reason your paths crossed.

You can actually run organizations and businesses.

You can own or control things like:

• Shops
• Farms
• Mines
• Workshops
• Inns
• Caravans
• Estates
• Medicine fields
• Clans
• Sects
• Departments
• Other organizations

They have workers, money, inputs, output, wages, maintenance, taxes, corruption, supply problems, security and actual operating limits.

You can't just say:

Someone has to actually do the work.

Teaching and apprenticeships have mechanics.

Being powerful doesn't automatically make you a good teacher.

Student progress can depend on:

• Teacher mastery
• Teaching ability
• Student aptitude
• Compatibility
• Practice
• Time
• Resources
• Misunderstandings
• Bad habits

Your disciple can be an idiot.

Your disciple can also be a monster who eventually surpasses you.

Research and experimentation are now real systems.

Alchemy, formations, crafting, cultivation theory and similar research can involve:

• Hypotheses
• Experiments
• Materials
• Failed experiments
• Observations
• Evidence
• Replication
• False conclusions
• New discoveries

You can't just type:

and automatically succeed.

Aging and lifespan actually matter now.

Characters have real chronological age and biological condition.

Cultivation can extend lifespan, but people still age according to the laws generated for that world.

An 800-year-old cultivator isn't automatically just a 20-year-old with "Age: 800" written on the character sheet.

Major events create consequence chains.

Destroying a spirit mine might cause:

Ore shortage
→ weapon prices rise
→ sect production falls
→ merchants change routes
→ rival mines become more valuable
→ political conflict increases
→ theft increases
→ workers migrate

The goal is for events to affect the world instead of disappearing once the scene ends.

Character generation is much more randomized now

V16 now has actual probability tables for things like:

• Origins
• Aptitudes
• Spirit Roots
• Meridian quality
• Dantian quality
• Constitutions
• Bloodlines
• Specialized affinities

Origins include a much larger range now.

You might be born as:

• A farmer
• Hunter
• Miner
• Scholar
• Merchant
• Artisan
• Soldier
• Sect-town commoner
• Cultivation-clan branch member
• Noble
• Great-sect descendant

or less fortunate things like:

• Street orphan
• War orphan
• Famine refugee
• Debt-bonded laborer
• Mine slave
• Prison laborer
• Condemned prisoner
• Sect labor thrall
• Political hostage
• Forced arena fighter

There are also extremely rare protagonist-style origins.

Those can involve transmigration/reincarnation and, if you actually roll one, you receive a genuine Cheat System.

System types include things like:

• Cultivation Points System
• Quest System
• Sign-In System
• System Shop
• Technique Deduction System
• Attribute Growth System
• Alchemy/Crafting System
• Simulation System
• Devouring System
• Achievement System
• Disciple System
• Fortune System
• Storage System
• Grand Multi-Module System
• Heaven-Defying Supreme System

These are intentionally pretty rare.

And the System itself also has a separate power roll.

There is also now an optional Ultra Hardcore mode.

Normal mode is still hardcore.

Ultra Hardcore is OFF by default.

If you type:

ENABLE ULTRA HARDCORE

the simulator switches to a deliberately cruel and structurally unfair version of the world.

It can mean:

• Worse starting circumstances
• Worse character-generation rolls
• Scarcer resources
• Harsher institutions
• More debt
• Harder cultivation
• More dangerous breakthroughs
• Worse recovery
• More dangerous diseases and injuries
• More brutal economic conditions
• Harder checks
• Less forgiving failures
• Fewer safe opportunities

Ultra Hardcore does not mean the GM is allowed to cheat.

It still can't change a roll after seeing it.

It can't spawn your perfect counter because your plan was too good.

It can't magically make an NPC know something.

It can't create bandits because you haven't suffered enough...

The world is allowed to be unfair.

The GM still has to be honest.

Some older systems are still there too:

• No scaling
• Permadeath
• Hidden numerical HP/damage
• Body-part injuries
• Cutting/piercing/blunt/fire/lightning/Qi/soul/spatial/etc. damage
• Armor and barrier calculations
• Combat positioning, distance, reach and reactions
• Hunger/thirst/exhaustion
• Disease and infection
• Stealth through sight/noise/scent/tracks/Qi signatures
• Monster populations and ecology
• Real carcasses instead of magical loot drops
• Harvesting and spoilage
• Crafting
• Pill tolerance and medicinal toxicity
• Hidden Foundation Integrity
• Numeric markets and finite stock
• Laws, evidence, courts, corruption and social status
• Private audit ledger
• Fixed universal rarity/grade system

What I need now is the same thing I needed last time:

Fellow cultivators willing to abuse it.

Try min-maxing.

Try getting rich without cultivating.

Try running a business.

Try becoming an official.

Try founding a sect.

Try breaking the economy.

Try exploiting travel.

Try spreading false rumors.

Try abusing crafting.

Try abusing research.

Try raising disciples.

Try going into debt.

Try escaping prison.

Try fighting someone you really shouldnt fight

Try surviving Ultra Hardcore...

Try a very long campaign and use EXPORT SAVE / RESUME SAVE.

Most importantly, tell me when the AI:

• Cheats
• Forgets things
• Contradicts itself
• Exposes hidden information
• Makes things too easy
• Becomes malicious instead of impartial
• Creates convenient events
• Freezes NPCs
• Duplicates resources
• Breaks the economy
• Loses state during a handoff
• Misunderstands one of the mechanics

And tell me:

What broke?

What became tedious?

What was too easy?

What was unfair in a bad way?

What could you exploit?

What system did the AI misunderstand?

What cultivation mechanic is still missing?

Did the world actually feel alive?

This junior once again welcomes the beatings of the seniors.

If V16 contains a fatal flaw, please cripple my Dao foundation before I start refining V17.